Samuel Mitchell TAYLOR

(1852-1921)

TAYLOR, Samuel Mitchell,
(father of Chester William Taylor), a Representative from Arkansas;
born near Fulton, Itawamba County, Miss., May 25, 1852; attended
the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Tupelo,
Miss., and commenced practice in 1876; member of the State house of
representatives in 1879 and 1880; moved to Pine Bluff, Jefferson
County, Ark., in 1887, where he continued the practice of law;
prosecuting attorney of the eleventh judicial district of Arkansas
1888-1892; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1896;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress; subsequently
elected to the Sixty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Joseph T. Robinson; reelected to the
Sixty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from
January 15, 1913, until his death in Washington, D.C., September
13, 1921; interment in Bellewood Cemetery, Pine Bluff, Ark.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present